Git repository with Apache (via WebDAV) and gitweb

I’ve just finished setting up my semi-personal git repository. I was forced to use apache authentication on https (instead of the usual git-daemon or a more canonical ssh authentication) as my hostel/university firewall is particularly fascist. I choose gitweb as web interface, because it seems to be the most widespread and I’m quite comfortable with it (and is available in Debian Etch😉 ).

As a starting point, I used the official Howto to understand how this is expected to work, and a quick readme for gitweb. I won’t go into details about gitweb configuration, as it’s extensively explained somewhere else.

All those Aliases are just because I didn’t copy those file in proper directories, but instead I used directly the one provided by packages. index here is used only as placeholder for the gitweb index script.
Then the real repository part, managed with DAV:
<Location /my_repo.git>
Dav on
AuthType Basic
AuthName "My repo with git"
AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/git_repo.passwd
<Limitexcept GET HEAD PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
Require valid-user
</Limitexcept>
</Location>

This way, everybody can git-clone my repository (yes, it mainly contains free-software stuff🙂 ), but pushing is only available to those authenticated (via the usual BasicAuth mechanism and ~/.netrc credentials).